I’m tempted to recite an old Stephen Tonsor quip, but I’ll refrain. What is significant here is that NR is providing what its readers want, and that evidently no longer includes celebrations of democracy as America’s greatest export. Whether any of the editors have come around is another question, but it’s worth considering that even the most devout apparatchik eventually had to face up to the Soviet Union’s collapse.

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If you visit the NR Corner blog, it’s obvious that the place is still a self-reinforcing neo-con ghetto. Rove and Cheney are still lionized, Davis Hanson, Cliff May and Michael Ledeen still post their military exceptionalism shtick and the other columnists like Jay Nordlinger, John Miller, Stephen Spruiell and Kathryn Lopez are still intellectually atrocious.

Cynical. Placing Rand on the cover just solidfies public perception that libertarians = conservative.It could be opportunistic, though Adam Smith would probably say “What difference does that make?”. Maybe that is the right perspective.

For entirely selfish reasons, the National Review is going back to it’s intelligent roots. I benefit with better articles, they benefit from my patronage. Maybe I’ll pick up a copy tomorrow. Along with Reason, The Nation (left-wing mag that isn’t Obama’s amen corner, unlike TNR or The American Prospect), and maybe The American Conservative.

I read Alinski’s books during the early 70s. From my memory his sympathies would probably be far more with the Tea Party (although Dick Armey is a blight on the Tea Party), than wiith Obama and Hillary. I thought conservatives could learn an enormous amount from his tactics. I am glad to see that TAC published this link.

God Bless Mr. Preble and his valiant efforts over at Cato to provide a much needed reality check to the ‘conservatives,’ and even some ‘libertarians,’ who have soft spots for anything wearing camouflage with a US flag on it. He, Malou Innocent, and several others at Cato are doing a great job of explaining what a real conservative foreign policy is supposed to look like.

Too bad that it smacks of poltical opportunism for these stories to appear under the NR banner only after a Democrat’s in the White House.